The JOY Broadcast

A powerful addition to the Joy Rebel Summer series. Jacoline, Feng Shui practitioner and the voice behind the return to self work, joins me to explain something that changed how I think about elevation and growth.
She calls it the mindset ceiling. The idea that when we are trying to shift or elevate our identity, we cannot simply leap to the next level. We have to first restabilise the environment beneath us, because that environment is what creates the floor that lets us push beyond the ceiling we have unknowingly built for ourselves.
We talk about cycle nine and the rising of mature, wiser feminine energy. About the question underneath all of it, who am I without my business, without my success, without wife, without mother. And about trust. Jacoline's line, a bird does not trust the branch it sits on, it trusts its wings, is one I remember from my own days of remembering who I was in the darkness.
A beautiful, brief reminder that returning to yourself is not about becoming someone new. It is about trusting what is already there.
Find Jacoline
On Instagram: @fengshuiformula
Contact Jacky : Jacoline Vascotto at jacolinevascotto70@gmail.com
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This episode starts with a shark jumping over a kayak. And honestly, it only gets better from there!
Trudi joins me from Australia to share a story about labels, about a lifetime spent wearing them, daughter, dancer, business owner, mother, and slowly discovering that underneath every one of them was simply her. We talk about her son Gibson, born early and unexpected after she and her husband had been told they would likely never conceive, and the journey of understanding neurodivergence that came alongside raising him.
We talk about being told her whole life that quiet and compliant was the safest way to be, and about finally deciding she no longer wants that. About discovering Human Design and what it means to be a two four, someone who only truly sees her own brilliance reflected back by the people around her. And about the moment last year when her body, quite literally, put her on her backside and forced her to stop.
That stop became kayaking. The kayaking became a shark. And the shark became the wake up call that led her back to herself, to her poetry, and to the beginning of Strump Art and Kids Without Labels, the platform she is now building to support other parents walking a similar path.
This is a conversation about asking for more, even when life already looks good. About filling your own well instead of pouring from an empty cup. And about rocking your own boat on purpose.
Find Trudi
Instagram: @strumpart_trudireid
Instagram: @kidswithoutlabels
Joy Rebellion
Trudi found her way back to herself inside the Joy Rebellion, surrounded by women who hold up a mirror and tell the truth with love. Come and find your own circle. →Find out more and join The Joy Rebellion
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This week's guest built something extraordinary out of the worst thing that ever happened to her. Leesa lost her mum to lung cancer within nine months, a diagnosis nobody saw coming. In the depths of that grief, unable to sleep, on a rising dose of medication that left her numb, she started walking. Just walking and talking with a friend, at every hour, because it was the only thing that helped.
That walking group grew. And grew. Until it became Rant and Ramble, a movement of women across the country who gather to walk, to talk, to dance without a drink in hand, and to feel less alone.
We talk about the coffee raves that started with twenty people and grew to five hundred. About the retreats that began because Leesa needed somewhere to switch her own brain off. About the power of sound healing and reiki for a woman who walked in convinced it was nonsense. And about the incredible collaboration coming this July with Davina McCall and the Begin Again podcast.
This is a conversation about grief, about community, and about what happens when you turn your pain into something that helps thousands of other women feel that bit of joy.
Find Leesa
Website: Www.rantandramble.co.uk
Instagram: @rantandrambleuk and @leesacollinge
 
New virtual world launching this week, with all retreats, coffee rave dates and tickets in one place.
Joy Rebellion
If Leesa's story has reminded you how powerful it is to not do this alone, come and find your community in the Joy Rebellion. → Be a JOY Rebel!
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I'm recording this one from my armchair. Which feels entirely appropriate, because what I'm about to share with you started in a moment of complete surrender. Not a boardroom, not a strategy session, not a list of goals. Just me, trusting that things would work out.
I've just come back from the most incredible weekend at Manifest in Newcastle (Canny Crystals and Mart Tweedy's extraordinary event) and it sent me straight back to the story that became the foundation of everything I now teach about magic manifesting. The story of an Apple Watch. 
This episode is a mini masterclass. I'm giving you the complete five A formula, the one I've run as a Magic Manifesting Week multiple times, the one that has seen women in The Joy Rebellion manifest freedom funds, dream jobs, Caribbean trips, visibility they never thought possible, and daughters making football teams. It works. I also share the science that backs it up completely. The reticular activating system, Tara Swart's work on the mind, the Hawkins Scale of Consciousness. This isn't woo woo. This is how your brain actually works.
Come and get comfortable. This one's for you.
Favourite quotes from this episode
"When you get so fixated on the delivery being in a specific way at a certain time, it doesn't always work. But sometimes the universe can blow your fucking mind and it comes out of left field and gives it to you in a way you never expected."
"Our minds are our greatest asset. They can either fire you up or they can fuck you up. And you get to choose."
"Those who are certain of the outcome can wait and wait without anxiety." A Course in Miracles
"I don't have to sell anything. I just have to share my stories of my life. And that is the sell."
"It's like placing the order with Apple or Amazon. Place the order. And then hand it over."
Links mentioned in this episode
Manifest — Canny Crystals and Mart Tweedy's event: [https://www.mani-fest.uk/]
The Joy Brief on Substack — this week's edition: what to do when you don't know what you want
Magic Manifesting in The Rose Portal — the full programme including the science, the tools, and the magic amplifiers: Join the Joy Rebellion
The Abundance Amplifiers — 20 free three-minute amplifiers on YouTube: Find it at Number Four in the Joy Emporium
Coming up on The Joy Broadcast
Ali is heading off on her summer family holiday and she's leaving you in the very best hands. Over the next two weeks, you'll be hearing from some of the most inspiring real women in The Joy Rebellion: women who have been through it, navigated it, and come out the other side with their joy intact. Real stories. Real courage. Real hope.
Connect with Ali
On Instagram: @alimortimer_thejoycoach
On Substack: Ali Mortimer, the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from
The answer is always joy. Love always, Ali x

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This week Ali is sharing something close to her heart. Tom, her eldest son, has just finished his final A-level, and with it, an entire chapter of life has come to a close. In this episode she takes you into the lay-by on the side of the road where she had to pull over because the tears wouldn't stop. The full circle moment. The rush of pride, grief, love and terror all at once.
And from that place she asks a question that changes everything: why would you want to regulate this emotion?
This is an episode about emotions and why feeling them fully, all of them, is not something to be managed or controlled but something to be honoured. About the midlife transition so many women are standing in right now. About what it really means when the children start to fly. About why Ali refuses to call it empty nesting and what she's calling it instead.
If you're in this season, approaching it, or supporting someone who is, this one is for you.
In This Episode
The moment Tom walked out of school for the last time and what it stirred up in Ali
Why "emotional regulation" is a phrase Ali takes issue with and what she thinks it costs us
The dam analogy and what really happens when we suppress instead of feel
Why Ali pulled over in a lay-by and what happened when she let it all come through
Roller coasters versus teacups and which one Ali is always going to choose
The bungee ski jump in Austria, the boys cheering at the bottom, and what fear really feels like when you walk straight into it
Why Ali refuses the phrase "empty nest" and what she's renaming this chapter
Joy Nesting. Bird launching. And why this era might be the most exciting one yet
Fiji 1999, the dreams James and Ali cast on that beach, and what it means to have actually built them
The question every woman in midlife needs to ask herself right now
Why this is your time. Just On You.
Quotes From This Episode
"Why would you want to regulate that feeling? I have never felt so alive."
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving completely safe and preserved and pristine. We're going to be skidding up to those pearly gates, totally spent, totally exhilarated, going — holy fck, what a ride."*
"Nothing is wrong. Your feelings are finally getting their turn."
"We're not the people who go to the fairground and ride in the teacups. We're the people who run for the roller coaster."
"Joy Nesting. Because we have created a home with joy, and they will always come back to it."
Mentioned In This Episode
The Hawkins Scale of Consciousness : Number 11 in the Joy Emporium  https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-emporium
The Joy Rebellion → https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellion
Connect With Ali
Website: alimortimer.com 
Instagram: @alimortimer_thejoycoach
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